Hildegard Peplau's Theory and the Health Care Encounters of Survivors of Sexual Violence.

Background: Individuals who experience sexual violence often seek services in a variety of health care settings. Although research indicates that survivors often report that interactions with health care professionals are distressing, little is known about what renders these encounters helpful or hurtful.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to use Hildegard Peplau's (1952) conceptualization of nurses' helping roles (i.

Safe medication administration.

Safe medication administration continues to be challenging for healthcare providers as evidenced by the escalating occurrences of actual and potential errors. Creating a safe medication environment requires an interdisciplinary approach and use of evidence-based practice recommendations for safe medication administration.

Mental health needs of children and adolescents at camp: are they being assessed and treated appropriately by the camp nurse?

Topic: Increasingly, more children and adolescents are attending camps with mental health concerns. This can pose a challenge for camp nurses who may lack experience in assessment and treatment of mental health issues.

Purpose: To focus on the importance of addressing and treating mental health needs of children and adolescents at camp utilizing the Scope and Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice.

Adaptive sampling: recruiting a diverse community sample of survivors of sexual violence.

Accessing vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations is a significant challenge for nurse researchers. Adaptive sampling is a procedure that has been used effectively in community-based research to recruit rare or hidden populations. Structured community assessment, as practiced by community health nurses, can be used to enhance adaptive sampling procedures to recruit research participants.